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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Colloidal Silver for Canning and Food Preservation

Colloidal Silver for Canning & Food Preservation

by Angela Kaelin

Historically, from the time of the Roman Empire to the days of American pioneers heading westward across the prairie, silver has been used to preserve food and beverages.

Because of its well-known bactericidal and fungicidal qualities, silverwas used to make cups, pitchers and storage containers to help preserve food, water, wine, vinegar and oils that would otherwise spoil easily from bacterial contamination.

What’s more, plates, bowls and eating utensils were frequently also made of silver.Sometimes silver coins were placed in storage containers to preserve food and water on long voyages.

Sadly,today most food processing companies rely on toxic chemicals and irradiation to preserve food when they could be using a safer, healthier and all-natural alternative.

Safe, Effective, Highly Beneficial

As a preservative, colloidal silver is not only extremely safe and highly effective, but it provides a number of powerful health benefits to the human body, including increased immunity and greater resistance to infection and disease.

That’s why colloidal silver remains to this day the perfect added preservative for canning, as well as for lengthening the shelf life of the foods in your refrigerator or on your kitchen counter.

Rules-of-Thumb for Using Colloidal Silver

in Food Canning and Preservation

Food Storage:Colloidal silver is the ideal food preservative to use whenever you are canning, freezing, pickling or making fruit preserves.

To prevent spoilage add 1 tablespoon of 10 ppm colloidal silver per quart when home-canning, especially if you’re using the boiling-water-bath method.Seal the lids as per usual.

Beverages:The general rule for long-term storage of beverages like tomato juice, vegetable juices and water is to add one ounce of 10 ppm colloidal silver per gallon, mix well and seal the lids as per usual.

Spoiled Food Is Wasted Money!

Letting food go to waste is a costly but unfortunate reality of life.However, you can easily use colloidal silver at home to preserve your food for longer periods of time.

For example, you can stretch your dollars by using colloidal silver to keep your fruits and vegetables fresh for significantly longer periods of time.Before refrigerating them, just soak them in a bowl consisting of one ounce of 10 ppm colloidal silver per quart of water.Or, simply use a pump spray bottle to lightly spray your fruits and veggies with 10 ppm colloidal silver before refrigeration.

Also, meat, dairy products and any other foods or beverages can be given a longer life by using colloidal silver to help preserve them.The simplest method is to spray them lightly with colloidal silver before refrigerating.

Here are some additional examples of how you can use colloidal silver to make your food last a few days or more longer,with and without refrigeration:

Preserve un-refrigerated sun tea from bacteria for up to a week by adding colloidal silver.One colloidal silver user states, "Here in Texas iced tea that is set out will spoil overnight.I pour one to one and a half ounces of colloidal silver into the tea; it lasts over a week with out refrigeration."

Soak boiled eggs in a solution of one ounce of colloidal silver to 1 quart of water for 45 minutes.This allows the silver to soak through the shell and keeps boiled eggs from spoiling without refrigeration for a few days longer than untreated eggs.

When having an outdoor family gathering or going on a picnic in which food may be unrefrigerated for a prolonged period of time, add about a tablespoon of colloidal silver per quart to any dishes containing mayonnaise, dairy products or to any other food that is prone to Salmonella growth.

Stir colloidal silver into un-refrigerated condiments like ketchup, mustard and relish before going on a long picnic or other outdoor gathering.

When making potato salad, pasta salad or deviled eggs, add at least a couple of teaspoons of 10 ppm colloidal silver to the mixture to slow the growth of harmful bacteria.The same can be done for any other dishes that are prone to spoilage when left un-refrigerated for a few hours at picnics, family gatherings or potluck meals.

Spray colloidal silver on fresh blueberries, strawberries, grapes and other fruits or vegetables that might otherwise mold before you have a chance to eat them.

Stir a tablespoon of colloidal silver into cottage cheese or milk containers that are nearing their expiration dates,to keep them fresh longer.Says colloidal silver advocate Kathy B. in an online forum, “If I still have lots of milk in the container as it’s approaching its expiration date, I add anywhere from a tablespoon to an ounce of colloidal silver in order to extend its refrigerated shelf life.”

Interesting Experiment

According to another internet source, an experiment was performed in which a small amount of colloidal silver was added to a cup of milk, which was then left on the kitchen countertop at room temperature.The same amount of milk was added to a 'control' cup and placed next to the silver-laced milk. The control milk would spoil and sour after 24 to 36 hours, while the samples with added colloidal silver would last between 3 to 9 days, unspoiled.

In short, colloidal silver can extend the edible life of almost any dish or beverage you prepare, including soups, stews, salads, teas and more.

While colloidal silver won't make your foods and beverages last forever (because its antibacterial qualities slowly degrade over time when it comes into contact with other substances), it can significantly help slow the growth of harmful bacteria and make food and drink last longer in or out of the refrigerator.

Emergency Preparedness

Pint bottles of colloidal silver should be stored as part of every home emergency preparedness kit.

When you're in need of safe, purified water in an emergency, add an ounce of your stored colloidal silver per gallon to unpurified water and shake it well.Leave it sit overnight before drinking.

Common Sense Health Alternative

Colloidal silver is the common sense, healthy and money-saving way to preserve and store food -- for both the long and short-term.

Just remember the basic rule of adding approximately one tablespoon of colloidal silver per quart of solid or liquid that you plan to preserve or store.

As you begin experimenting with the use of colloidal silver for this purpose, you're sure to find many other ways to use colloidal silver to preserve food, prevent waste and save money.

12 comments:

First, we have to make an all-out effort to EDUCATE people to the many benefits of colloidal silver and the usage of silver in general, and its incredible record of safety in human use.

To date, between FDA attacks on colloidal silver, EPA attempts to label silver-based products as "environmental pesticides," and big corporate media attempts to scare people away from silver usage by parading the so-called "colloidal silver blue man" around to every show from Opray to the Today Show, the public reputation of this remarkable healing mineral has suffered.

And as long as we keep losing the war like this, we'll never see silver used in food processing and preservation the way it should be used instead of toxic chemicals.

Keep working to educate people about the remarkable qualities of silver. Send people to this blog...encourage people to join the Colloidal Silver Secrets Group on Facebook in order to learn more (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=285212734559)...and send people to the various web sites that have the clinical studies showing colloidal silver's powerful healing benefits, such as www.ColloidalSilverKillsViruses.com and www.ColloidalSilverCuresMRSA.com

There are so many things we can do to educate the public. Once the public is educated, then we can focus on lobbying Congress to force the various bureacracies to back down and allow silver to be used .

Maybe a strange question, but is it possible to use silver to increase the shelf life of raw milk and then use it a week later to make homemade kefir without killing the kefir organisms? I notice that my kefir is more sour when I use milk that is a week old, which makes sense since the lactic acid bacteria are building up, but I would like to use less sour milk when making kefir and wonder if the colloidal silver would help. Thanks.

Lori, that's a great question and I honestly don't know the answer to it.

Why don't you try it, and then report back to us on how it worked out?

That would be a wonderful experiment!

BTW, join us on the Colloidal Silver Secrets Group on Facebook, and ask the question there, also. There are over 1,400 experienced colloidal silver users on the group, and someone there might have the experience you are looking for in regards to making kefir.

The link to the group is: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=285212734559

Yes, ingesting overly high amounts of colloidal silver for overly long periods of time can eventually overwhelm the body's ability to excrete the silver. The silver then gets pushed out to the skin by the body, in an attempt to get rid of it. And when the sun hits the silver imbedded in the skin, it can turn gray or even blue. I've warned about this repeatedly, including in this article:

Daniel, yes, if you are basing your dosage on a 10 ppm concentration of silver, then you would cut the dosage in half if it is 20 ppm. There is a simple formula to use for determining the safe daily dosage level you can use for a lifetime, and a free report explaining how to use this formula is available at www.ColloidalSilverSafeDosageReport.com

I am just starting to make my own body care products like lotion and deodoarants, but they all use parishable ingredients like oils, shea butter, cocoa butter, and beeswax mixed with water. They say you can use Vit E and Grapefruit seed extract as a way to preserve it for a few weeks, but i wondered if adding silver would be better. What is your opionin and about how much silver would you need to add?

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Important: The information on this blog has not been reviewed or approved of by the FDA. Nor is it intended to provide medical advice, or be "prescriptive" in any way. It is merely a journalistic account of what we have learned about colloidal silver and its usage from the existing literaure, from personal experience, and from interviews with over 2,000 experienced colloidal silver users over the course of the past 12 years. The information on this blog is not meant to be the "final word" on colloidal silver usage by any stretch of the imagination. The information is from sources deemed to be accurate and reliable, but no guarantees of accuracy or reliability are hereby expressed or implied. Therefore, readers are urged to perform their own due diligence. When dealing with medical conditions, always consult with your licensed and trusted medical professional.